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Hello there,

this will be my first DebConf too, and reading your message I wonder a 
lot of similar questions, of course this will lead to some extra (but 
valuable) work, and having people with experience editing and producing 
multimedia content will give the project a chance to make more impact in 
new and old Debian users (both to learn and teach better).

For my part I'll be more than happy to participate in a discussion like 
this one as a new user looking for better experiences on how to learn.

See you in Curitiba.

Leonel.


On 6/28/19 3:05 PM, Sam Hartman wrote:
> 
> Speaking as an individual developer.
> 
> One of my coworkers, Matt Tennie, will be attending his first
> Debconf this year.  He has a lot of video production experience .
> 
> He's been asking me questions about Debian, and somewhere along the way
> we realized it would be great to make available answers to common
> questions in a very accessible format.
> 
> I think an example could illustrate.
> 
> Matt asked me when gstreamer 0.16 would make its way into buster.  "It
> won't," I said and moved on with whatever I was doing.
> 
> The next day he came back and said he really wanted to understand
> better, because it didn't make any sense at all that we wouldn't want
> the latest software.
> So I started to explain about stability guarantees and stable releases.
> I talked about hand reviewing changes during the release.  We  looked
> at the reverse dependencies of gstreamer.  I talked about how even in
> the best cases sometimes changes break a reverse dependency by
> accident.  Then I talked about APIs and ABIs and started talking about
> the cost in terms of man power of actually pulling in a change.
> 
> But to make a long story short, I gave the 10 minute version of  why do
> we value stable releases, and what all is involved in that.
> 
> Matt and I were talking about how it would be fun to capture things like
> this in videos and help users or new contributors understand what makes
> Debian.
> 
> I think examples might include:
> 
> * The stable release discussion we already had
> 
> * When to use packaged software vs upstream software
> 
> * Why is it so hard to make a package for Debian
> 
> * Why it is involved to become a Debian developer (and how you can
>    contribute with less effort if desired)
> 
> * Debian vs crates/gems/eggs/CPAN/what have you
> 
> I'm sure there are lots of these.
> 
> If we did succeed in something like this I'm imagining releasing content
> both on a libre platform of some kind as well as youtube.
> Mostly I wanted to float the idea, get input.  Also wondering if anyone
> would be interested in meeting to discuss this at Debconf.
> 
> 
> --Sam
> 

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